Intestinal amino acid (AA) transport is critical for the supply of AA to other tissues. Few studies regarding AA intestinal transport systems during the period from postnatal intense development of piglets until weaning are available. In the present study, we measured the intestinal expression of b0,þAT according to developmental stage using the suckling Huanjiang piglet model, and documented t...

Modern ideals of female attractiveness include an extremely toned and fit appearance in addition to extreme thinness. Although viewing thin models has a negative effect on women's body image, research has not tested the effect of exposure to the ultra-fit physique separate from the thin-ideal. This randomized, posttest-only experiment tested the effects of the athletic aspect of the current ide...

A hierarchical polling-based access scheme for Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN) is proposed in this paper. The proposed access scheme is structured in hierarchy to collect data from sensor nodes inserted in human body. In first level of hierarchy the sensor nodes are divided into groups and sensor nodes of each group communicate with a sink node which collects data by using polling technique...

The Children's Oncology Group (COG) Nutrition Committee was established to further the knowledge of nutrition in children with cancer by education and the conduct of clinical trials. A survey of COG institutions revealed lack of conformity in evaluation and categorization of nutritional status, and criteria for nutritional intervention. The Committee subsequently established specific categories...

Body area networks (BANs) are configured with a great number of ultra-low power consumption wearable devices, which constantly monitor physiological signals of the human body and thus realize intelligent monitoring. However, the collection and transfer of human body signals consume energy, and considering the comfort demand of wearable devices, both the size and the capacity of a wearable devic...

BACKGROUND The therapeutic range for digoxin in heart failure has recently changed to become lower and narrower, and the new range is associated with improved mortality. However, dosing methods have not been modified to reflect this change. In this study, we sought to develop a new method to determine the initial dose of digoxin in patients with heart failure. METHODS Over a 6-month period, m...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between pretreatment nutritional status and prognosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). METHODS Pretreatment nutritional status was evaluated by ideal body weight percentile (IBW%) and serum albumin for 512 patients with NPC who underwent radical radiotherapy. Kaplan-Meier methods, log-rank test, and a Cox model were ap...

As a disease of epidemic proportion, obesity is increasingly becoming a target for management by patients and their physicians. Its incidence is increasing. As a concept, ideal body weight (IBW) was conceived in life insurance studies after looking at the occurrence of obesity-related complications and morbidity, and determining maximum life expectancy.1 The ideal body weight is therefore the b...

BACKGROUND Childhood obesity is a continuing problem in the UK and South Asian children represent a group that are particularly vulnerable to its health consequences. The relationship between body dissatisfaction and obesity is well documented in older children and adults, but is less clear in young children, particularly South Asians. A better understanding of this relationship in young South ...